Linkedin Does Company Resource Intelligence: Talent Insights

Been waiting for this for some time, based on conversations with Linkedin long ago.  The data and architecture is there.  Analyzing any company, your competitors, your clients, even your own company to determine what disruption it is ready, or not ready for.   What are the resources costing?  Cost effective?  Where are they lacking?  What kind of resources could be augmented with AI?   And lots, lots more.  Your company is defined by its resources, so shouldn't you analyze them?  What resources do you specifically have for a given project.  Get them together!  How does your data link to people resources?  Lots more to consider about how this could be used.

LinkedIn steps into business intelligence with the launch of Talent Insights   By Ingrid Lunden  @ingridlunden  in TechCrunch

LinkedIn  may be best known as a place where people and organizations keep public pages of their professional profiles, using that as a starting point for networking, recruitment and more — a service that today that has racked up more than 575 million users, 20 million companies and 15 million active job listings. But now under the ownership of Microsoft, the company has increasingly started to build a number of other services; today sees the latest of these, the launch of a new feature called Talent Insights.

Talent Insights is significant in part because it is LinkedIn’s first foray into business intelligence, that branch of enterprise analytics aimed at helping execs and other corporate end users make more informed business decisions.

Talent Insights is also notable because it’s part of a trend, where LinkedIn has been launching a number of other services that take it beyond being a straight social network, and more of an IT productivity tool. They have included a way for users to look at and plan commutes to potential jobs (or other businesses); several integrations with Microsoft software including resume building in Word and Outlook integrations; and adding in more CRM tools to its Sales Navigator product.   ... "